Pencil-holding slate



(No Model.)

W. G. REIMER.

Pencil Holding Slate. No. 236,457. Phtehted Jan. 11,1881.

[Tu/e n Z'ar.

E A f N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER. WISWNGTQ" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W. GILBERT REIMER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PENCIL-HOLDING SLATE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No.-236,457, dated January 11, 1881.

Application filed July 31, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W. GILBERT REIMER, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pencil-Holding Slates, of which the following is a full, true, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a slate having in its frame a groove or space for the reception of the pencil when the slate is not in use, and a device for retaining the pencil therein; and it consists as hereinafter described and claimed.

1n the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my slate, showing the pencil-groove in the frame thereof; Figs. 2 and 3, perspective views of the pencil-retaining case or guard, and Fig. 4 a perspective view of my slate with the pencil guard in place thereon.

The pencil-groove A (shown in Fig. l) is formed, in the present instance, in the edge of the frame of the slate, and is of such size and conformation as to receive and contain a pencil of the kind ordinarily in use.

B is the pencil-guard,formed of metal, wood, hard rubber, or other suitable material, and of gutter form, the two parallel sides 0 and D of which are of such distance apart as to enable the guard to fit over and closely embrace the edge of the frame of the slate, and thereby form a cap or retaining-cover to the pencilgroove A. The sides 0 and D of the guard B are turned inwardly to form the flanges E and F, the oflice of which flanges is to take into grooves or ways G and H, formed in the opposite sides of the slate-frame, and thus secure the guard in position upon the frame. The outer surfaces of the sides 0 and D of the guard are provided with standard forms of let ters, figures, or other useful characters, as copies for children.

It will be understood that the guard B, when the slate is in use, may be removed from the edge of the frame and laid across the slate in such manner as to conveniently present the copy thereon inscribed to the view of the user; or the guard may, when necessary, be used as a ruler.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- A slate-frame provided with a pencil-groove, A, formed into an edge thereof, and provided, also, with ways G and H, formed into opposite sides of the. frame contiguously to the groove A, in combination with the pencil-guard B, so formed as to embrace the grooved edge of the frame, and by means of flanges E and F be removably attached thereto, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 28th day of July, A. D. 1880.

\V. GILBERT RE IMER.

In presence of- W. O. STRAWBRIDGE, J OIIN J OLLEY, Jr. 

